OER from the UOL
OER from the UOL
Introducing projects at the UOL
In the following, we would like to give the OER projects at our university the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves and at the same time present specific materials to interested parties.
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Support for teaching in inclusive settings: "Action strategies for heterogeneous classes - OER for teacher training"
For a taster - directly to a selected material:
 | About having and needing. A podcast from the "Learner needs" package |
 | Feedback - supporting learning constructively. A presentation video from the "Inclusive education" package |
 | What is Classroom Management? (Part 1 of 2). A screencast from the "Good teaching" package. |
What is it about?
Inclusion and heterogeneity of learning groups is a topic that is relevant in all teaching degree programmes. The project "Action strategies for heterogeneous classes - OER for teacher training" has taken this as an opportunity to create videos, podcasts and texts in the format "Open Educational Resources" (OER) so that (future) teachers can better qualify themselves and face the topics of "heterogeneous learning groups" and "inclusive education" more calmly. The materials focus on the quality of teaching, the possibilities of inclusive lesson design and school development as well as the special needs of learners. Impairments in the areas of learning and social-emotional development are also taken into account.
The materials were awarded "OER of the Month" (Feb. 2023) by twillo.de.
How can the OER be used?
The project has developed scientifically based videos, podcasts and texts ("products") on various topics ("packages"). Originally, they were intended to support university teachers in discussing how to successfully deal with the complexity of teaching in an interdisciplinary way with prospective teachers.
Further possible applications have emerged in the course of the project progression, including
- As self-study material for teachers both during their studies and in school practice
- For use in subject and school conferences as impulse materials in the context of inclusive school development
- As information material for school authorities to pass on to interested schools
Where to find?
All materials can be found in a collection with 3 sub-collections on twillo.de under this link.
Project name
Action strategies for heterogeneous classes - OER for teacher training. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Contact - Clemens Hillenbrand /
Project website - uol.de/oer-lkb
Project duration - 01.01.2021 - 31.10.2022
SOUVER@N - Digital teaching and learning in Lower Saxony
For a taster:
 | Here you can find all OER provided by the partners of the joint project SOUVER@N at twillo . |
What is it about?
The SOUVER@N project was a joint project involving 8 universities in Lower Saxony and Elan e.V., which tackled the diverse challenges in the field of digital teaching and developed strategies and approaches for the partner universities and beyond. The project ended in December 2025.
The (dynamic) link above provides anoverview of all OER materials that have been created in the network to date at twillo for further use (updated daily) and thus impressively documents the OER activities of the partners even beyond the end of project. The compilation contains a colourful variety of offers that these universities and especially their teaching staff make available to the public.
How can the OER be used?
Due to the wide range of materials, "everything" can be found here: concrete working materials, courses, didactic instructions, handouts, guidelines, etc.; video, audio, texts, worksheets, textbooks, scripts, presentations and much more from a wide variety of subject areas.
As of May 2026, there are already over 1900 materials from the network. Accordingly, there are a wide variety of possible uses, as self-study material, to supplement your own teaching, as a basis for your own teaching, etc.
Where to find it:
Under the above link at "Zum Reinschnuppern" and on the SOUVER@N website.
Project name
SOUVER@N - digital teaching and learning in Lower Saxony
Project website -www.souveraenes-digitales-lehren-und-lernen.de/home/
Project duration - 2021-31.07.2024, extended until 31.12.2025
OER in the "Methods file: Teaching methods from A to Z"
For a taster - directly to selected material:
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What is it about?
The method file is an extensive collection of different teaching methods that can be used in pre-school education, in a school context and in adult education. The methods can support teachers in preparing lessons . There are also options for differentiating and varying the methods.
The site also contains student-created OER that have been developed as part of courses focusing on education, training and socialisation .
How can the OER be used?
The OER can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom and beyond. The content is particularly, but not exclusively, relevant for teachers and student teachers . For example, the radio plays invite you to take a closer look at multilingualism, language situations and basic concepts of (political) education. The existing content can also serve as inspiration and help you to create and develop your own works .
Where to find them?
All OER materials are available on the Methodology Catalogue website.
Project name:
Methodenkartei - a co-operation project at the Universities of Oldenburg and Vechta.
Contact -
Project website - www.methodenkartei.uni-oldenburg.de
Project duration - since 2016 (open-ended)
Learning snacks around OER creation
For a taster - directly to a selected material:
 | Using images & texts in a legally compliant way (OER). A learning snack about legally compliant re-use. |
What is it about?
Learning Snacks are "knowledge snacks" that impart knowledge in small portions in a playful way via a chat format. The following self-learning modules were developed for a course in teacher training to support students in creating their own OER . The Learning Snacks provide a quick overview of the use and creation of OER.
How can the OER be used?
The Learning Snacks can be used to support the creation and quality control of OER.
Where to find them:
Anja's Learning Snacks on the pages of https://www.learningsnacks.de. These OER are licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0.
If you have any further ideas or suggestions for improvement, please do not hesitate to contact us for re-registering students:
OER at the C3L
OER at C3L Open educational resources are also created and used at C3L. One project in particular develops, revises, digitises and distributes OER for the management of education and science. Teachers who want to design and create free teaching and learning materials can also seek support there.
participate@UOL
Take a look
Here you can find all the OER that were created in the project. The project ended in December 2025.
 | What was it about? Within the project, teachers and students had the opportunity and the freedom to work together in a participatory manner to identify and test the most suitable teaching and learning formats for them and to implement them sustainably in practice. In addition, OER were developed in a separate sub-project to support students in, during or before their studies. |
How can the OER be used?
The OER created in the project are primarily aimed at students, but also anyone else who is interested, and introduce them to a wide range of topics.
Where can I find them?
The materials can be found both on the project website and at twillo.de.
Project name
participate@UOL
Project website - uol.de/participate
Project duration - 08/21-07/24, extended until 31/12/2025
C3L - Quality management in educational organisations
For a taster - directly to selected material:
 | Quality management in educational organisations: An organisational theory perspective |
 | Exercises for the study materials "Quality management in educational organisations" Meso level |
 | Quality management in educational organisations: Case study: Higher education sector, competence-orientated evaluation - is it possible? |
What is it about?
Quality management has become a core task of educational organisations in recent decades. This collection is less concerned with a detailed analysis of the circumstances at the individual educational levels than with a holistic introduction to the topic. The subject of "quality management in educational organisations" is examined at various levels - thus creating a basis that is relevant in all educational sectors.
How can the OER be used?
The collection contains learning videos, case studies, teaching texts and exercises that can be used as self-study materials. Detailed information on the content and options for exemplary use are compiled in the document "Didactic instructions for using the open educational resources (link)" and the learning path. In principle, all materials are designed so that they can be freely combined.
Where to find?
All materials can be found in a collection with 4 sub-collections on twillo.de under this link.
Further information
Other open educational resources are also created and used in the C3L. For example, OER have been created for the management of education and science, research data management, energy informatics and business administration topics such as human resource management, organisation and investment and financing . The C3L also has an OER strategy, which can be found at this link.
Contact - Uda Lübben -
Website - C3L - Centre for Lifelong Learning
Teaching-learning platform school
For a taster - directly to a selected material:
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What is it about?
The Teaching and Learning Platform School is a platform for Open Educational Resources (OER) related to schools. Using a filter, the available OER can be selected according to target group (teachers, pupils, teachers, student teachers), school subject and product type (guidelines, podcasts, videos, self-learning concepts, experiments, worksheets).
The platform was developed as part of the OLE+ project of the Teacher Education Quality Initiative and is maintained by the office of the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre. The submitted materials were developed as part of various projects and study modules and are subject to quality management. The platform is open for further OER.
How can the OER be used?
The OER can be used in a variety of ways in different subjects, during studies, during teacher training and by teachers at school. Pupils can use them for self-study. The thematic content and product types (guidelines, podcasts, videos, self-learning concepts, experiments, worksheets, etc.) are broadly based.
Where can I find them?
All OER materials are available on the website of the Teaching-Learning-Platform School.
Project name
Lehr-Lern-Plattform Schule der University of Oldenburg
Contact -
Website - uol.de/lehr-lern-plattform-schule
Wadden Sea Learning Lab
OER collection by Anja Wübben
Take a look - directly to selected material:
What is it about?
This collection contains learning materials on the topics of the Wadden Sea habitat , coast and ocean. They are mainly 90-minute teaching units with illustrative small experiments, digital learning components and elements of education for sustainable development (ESD).
The collection is still under construction and new topics are regularly selected in consultation with scientists from the University of Oldenburg, prepared as learning units for school lessons and tested and optimised in cooperation with various schools in the region.
Topics include
- Noise in the North Sea - suffering for harbour porpoises (The materials were developed by twillo.de as "OER of the month").
- Microplastics in the sea - formation and distribution
- Phytoplankton - Small but mighty
- Fishing in the North Sea - and its dangers
- North Sea coastal salt marshes
- Oil pollution in the Wadden Sea
- Ocean acidification
- The freshwater lens
- Light pollution in coastal areas
How can the OER be used?
The learning units (or individual modules) can be easily integrated into science lessons in schools or in environmental education at extracurricular learning centres , as in addition to exercise booklets , their sample solutions, the technical background as a factual analysis, complete material lists for the experiments and tabular lesson plans including possible lesson discussions are provided.
The teaching units were developed under the guidance of Anja Wübben for participate@UOL in the "Lernlabor Wattenmeer"(http://www.lernlabor-wattenmeer.de/) together with students in various biology didactics seminars, tested several times in practice with pupils and optimised.
Where to find:
All materials can be found in a collection with several sub-collections at twillo.de under this link.
Project - OER for teacher training from the "Lernlabor Wattenmeer".
Contact - Anja Wübben
Lernlabor Wattenmeer-Website - www.lernlabor-wattenmeer.de
Learning snacks around OER creation
For a taster - directly to a selected material:
| Using images & texts in a legally compliant way (OER). A learning snack about legally compliant re-use. |
What is it about?
Learning Snacks are "knowledge snacks" that convey knowledge in small portions in a playful way via a chat format. The following self-learning modules were developed for a course in teacher training to support students in creating their own OER . The Learning Snacks provide a quick overview of the use and creation of OER.
How can the OER be used?
The Learning Snacks can be used to support the creation and quality control of OER.
Where to find them:
Anja's Learning Snacks on the pages of https://www.learningsnacks.de. These OER are licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0.
If you have any further ideas or suggestions for improvement, please do not hesitate to contact us for re-registering students:
Thermodynamics in the Bachelor's degree programme in Chemistry
The materials consist of 2 sub-collections. The first sub-collection contains lecture videos on thermodynamics and the second sub-collection consists of instructional videos on the thermodynamics practical course.
To get a taste of the lecture:
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To familiarise yourself with the instructions for the practical course:
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What is it about?
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, a start was made on breaking down the thermodynamics required to study chemistry into small, easily digestible morsels. This resulted in the sub-collection lecture. And in preparation for the thermodynamics practical course, a series of videos were created to prepare students for the experiments and explain some of the techniques used in the practical course.
Both are available to students as a supplement to the regular lecture or as preparation for the practical course.
How can the OER be used?
The videos can be used for support and as self-study material during your studies. They are available under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where can I find them?
The materials on thermodynamics can be found on twillo.de under this link.
Contact - ,
Website - https://uol.de/en/chemistry/physical-chemistry-al-shamery
Learning map with self-learning materials for Office applications by W. Müskens
- by Dr Wolfgang Müskens for participate@UOL
- licenced under CC BY 4.0
- published in December 2023
Click here to view the learning map
Description:
Are you actually familiar with the software you have to use during your studies?
This learning map provides an overview of helpful self-study materials that explain how to use Office software during your studies. The linked resources contain introductions as well as useful tips and tricks for the following programmes: Word, Excel, LaTeX, PowerPoint and Citavi. Navigate through the map and select the topics that interest you.
Note: The software names mentioned in this learning map may be subject to trademark, brand or patent protection even without special labelling.
Target group:
First-year students and all other interested parties
Language:
German
Credits - we appreciate the use of this OER with the following information:
Learning map Office applications by W. Müskens for participate@UOL, licenced under CC BY 4.0.
For subsequent users:
All files of the OER as download (in the ZIP folder)
"Game-based learning and virtual reality medicine and natural sciences" - a padlet compilation of freely available offers for use in teaching by Susanne Quintes
- by Dr Susanne Ouintes for participate@UOL
- licenced under CC BY 4.0 - all templates, graphics or other elements created by Padlet itself are excluded from the licence.
- published in March 2024
Description:
This padlet provides an overview of teaching and learning offers that prepare and convey content with game elements (also known as game-based learning or edutainment). It focusses on free, preferably freely accessible offers that can be easily integrated into your own teaching.
Target group:
Teachers and students as well as all other interested parties
Language:
German
Credits - we appreciate the use of this padlet under the following credits:
"Game-based Learning and Virtual Reality Medicine and Natural Sciences" by Susanne Quintes, licensed under CC BY 4.0 - all templates, graphics or other elements created by the padlet itself are excluded from the licence.